Because no one likes waiting in queues for minutes on end to eventually have their lobby dropped, right?

Back to the drawing board then, as the store’s new plan is to only sell PS5 consoles to people using the store’s credit card plan, randomising when consoles go on sale, and asking staff to use their better judgement when making a sale.

With new technology comes new ways to steal, and Twitter happens to be crawling with bots programmed to pick up on complimentary tweets and grab the material that has earned such praise like a maggot on rotting meat. It’ll be mere minutes before the algorithms find the art, convert it into a file and plaster all over actual T-shirts which you can buy, albeit at the expense of the artist whose livelihood depends on them not being taken advantage of like this by unscrupulous vendors.

Tired of being mercilessly killed by absurdly-skilled players mere seconds after you start a game of Fortnite? Season 11 will even the playing field massively, as better matchmaking options and bots will help provide a fairer challenge to players of any skill level.

Quake Champions is actually a fun-as-hell arena shooter. Even though it takes the modern "hero" bits you'll find in many shooters, it lays them over the skeleton of a classic, old-school skill-based shooter experience. It's finally get practice bots.

EA is helping train AI to play Battlefield 1, to better understand how the technology may be used for both automation and testing in the near future.

Blizzard is looking to take German company Bossland to school, over the use of their bots in games such as Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III and World of WarCraft.

It was inevitable: Twitch-targeting botnets are being hired out to use infected PCs for the purposes of inflating viewer audiences